A menorah celebrating the Jewish festival of Hanukkah has been damaged in north London, with its light-bulbs smashed.
The Metropolitan Police said it was treating the incident in Muswell Hill as religiously aggravated criminal damage and that no arrests had been made at this stage.
Rabbi Boruch Altein from the Crouch End Chabad, which erected the menorah, said: “This incident is saddening, but we’re not going to be intimidated and we will increase the light”, adding that the menorah would be repaired and relit on Sunday.
It comes after 15 people were killed in mass shooting at a Hanukkah event on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on 14 December.